A research facility with favorable conditions that facilitate contemplative scientists’ empirical inquiry into mental phenomena, states of consciousness, and the origin and potentials of consciousness through direct, first-person observation. It is a place where contemplatives have few distractions and few other concerns and can dedicate themselves single-pointedly to cultivating refined states of attentional focus, applying mindfulness, introspection, and discerning intelligence to explore the nature of consciousness. This research is best performed by contemplatives who are professionally trained, just as other scientists require years of study before being regarded as experts within their disciplines. In mind labs, contemplatives-in-training and professional contemplatives work alongside psychologists, neuroscientists, and other scientists to combine contemplative first-person (subjective) and second-person (intersubjective) methods with the third-person methods of modern science.